Emdibir is a town south-west of Addis Ababa, in the central part of Ethiopia.

[2] In the early 1930s there was a Catholic mission of the Capuchins, usually with a Père and a Frère; they did some medical work and had a school.

Although it was insufficient, the community received aid in the form of clothes, maize, milk, butter and oil from the Catholic Relief Service, as well as some of the richer farmers in the area.

[2] Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Emdibir has an estimated total population of 4,057 of whom 1,992 are men and 2,065 are women.

[4] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 2,239 of whom 1,103 were men and 1,136 were women.